GUNS: The real problem

Even though I’m an NRA member, I understand why bump stocks, high capacity clips and automatic weapons should be banned.

Upcoming: Holiday craft fairs and bazaars

Christmas will be here before we know it! Get a jump on your holiday shopping by buying local and supporting the area’s artisans and craftspersons. The Press will be compiling and publishing a list of holiday craft fairs and bazaars to help guide you on your way to checking off all those names on your list this year!

SCHROEDER: We need her

Like many others, I have purchased a vehicle from a dealership and experienced that awkward moment when the salesperson was pushing me to buy into something I really didn’t need, like clear-coat, fabric protectant, maybe an overpriced extended warranty. Don’t you hate that?

AIRPORT: Encroachment worries

Last week the Hayden Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend to the City Council to allow Viking Construction to build 52 single family homes just south of the airport. We are sure that this recommendation will be a simple rubber stamp!

Alleged money launderer arrested

Deputies seize $71,000, drugs, paraphernalia during traffic stop

COEUR d'ALENE - A 64-year-old Minnesota man was arrested on Tuesday for alleged money laundering as police seized $71,000 during a traffic stop.

GUNS: Democrats reveal strategy

So now Beto has finally expressed in Prime Time, the dark fantasy that the Democrats have been expressing in not-so-secret for years. They’re coming for the guns. No matter that gun owners were, and still are, called “conspiracy nut jobs,” “whackadoodles,” “paranoid extremists,” etc. for stating this was the end game. And now every other “D” candidate either explicitly or complicity agrees with him. No matter that they can’t “buy back” something they never owned. No matter that we were warned by Patrick Henry to NEVER give up the force to be able to protect the public liberty or we would be ruined.

GUNS: Signs of the times

I read with interest Dr. May’s guest opinion from April 13, and why he feels we should not want school faculty to carry concealed weapons for the protection of children.

NIC: Lawyers should have answer to Banducci question

At the Sept. 27 NIC Board of Trustees meeting, Todd Banducci asked the question “If you have the formula on how to buy out a president’s contract, please bring it to me, or bring it to us, OK?.”

AMERICA: Can you believe…

Can you believe what is happening in America?

UNAMERICAN: Greeting at the polls

In the 40-plus years that I’ve been voting I’ve never had a problem voting until recently.

King County repeals bicycle helmet law, citing equity

The King County Council recently budgeted more than $200,000 to buy helmets and expand education programs

OPEN SPACE BOND: More info needed

Haven’t decided how I’ll vote but: 1) their plan seems too general at this point. I need more specific information how you envision spending $50 million. After all you’ve had months to work on your plan. What is it?, 2) You say current market interest rates are 3.7%. How can you sell 20-year bonds at 3.7% interest when the U.S. Treasuries 10-year note is selling at 4.9% and the 30-year bond 5.1%? Why would anyone buy this bond at 3.7%? If you have to raise your interest rate to 5% or more then doesn’t the property tax of $8 per $100,000 in assessed valuation understate what we will be actually charged?

Getting caffeine fix as easy as taking deep breath

Move over, coffee and Red Bull. A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say the novel product is not without its risks.

Full operation

Lookout, Silver Mountain and Schweitzer ski resorts runs 100% opened

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No break this spring at pump

Tourist destinations already feeling pinched as customers stay home

With gas prices above $4 in some states, Americans are canceling spring break plans and rethinking summer vacation, and some tourist destinations are offering gas vouchers of as much as $50 to talk people out of giving up and staying home.

Rebooting the PC industry: Tablets force a shift

More than one million PCs are sold every day

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The personal computer industry needs a jumpstart - and it's counting on a rescue from emerging markets and a late-to-the-party push into tablet computers.

Top business story: Economy grows but hiring lags

Real estate crisis, Toyota recall and China's swellingGDP among 2010's headlines

WASHINGTON - In 2010, the economy rebounded fitfully from the Great Recession - starting strong, wobbling at midyear but showing enough vigor by year's end to quell fears of a second recession. Yet Americans hardly felt relief under the weight of high unemployment, which began the year at 9.7 percent and is now 9.8 percent.

Health care changes start soon

Bigger changes will happen slowly

WASHINGTON - The first changes under the new health care law will be easy to see and not long in coming: There'll be $250 rebate checks for seniors in the Medicare drug coverage gap, and young adults moving from college to work will be able to stay on their parents' plans until they turn 26.

Do you properly feed your flora?

This week, I want to explore another interesting point around probiotics and fermented or cultured foods. I have become a strong advocate for the consumption of cultured foods such as kefir for their probiotic benefits. I have also been taking probiotics in pill form for a few years now to maintain good gut flora.

Oh, poo: The cool gadget isn't so great after all

I admit it. I’m a tech junkie. I’m what’s known in tech circles as an “early adopter.” What that means is I’m the guy who often buys things before the bugs are worked out.